The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-14
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CONDUCTED by W. NJ. MocAsTiAN.


Mr.. EDrroR:4I j would like to say o
word in reply to "Cld Fashioned
Teachers" anti normal school article.
Ii all our teachers could be brought
INTO this line of thinking, the tide
OF education in Pickens County, that
has been keeping pace with the ef.
forts made to elevate the general stan
dard, would roll backward, at least,
decade of yen,~ We might with
eqnal propriety; say that the stan
dard thirty years ago was equal to
THAT OF oday. This is day of fast
living and fast thinking, and teach
ers who think there is nothing more
for them to learn, will soon find there
IS no place for them in the ranks of
progressive, live successful teachers.
Has "Oid Fashioned Teacher" ever
attended County Normal! If so
did he derive no benefit from the two
or three days deliberations? It is a
rare thing that any teacher, who has
attended one County normal, does
not want to attend the next. If good
can be done at these, where the work
Is done by men who not only work
and lecture without pay, but actually
pay their own expenses to be allowed
to aid in advancing the great cause,
how much more good can be ancom-
pllshed by the State Normaln, where
experienced educators ore selected,
and paid handsome salaries for their
services. The very fact that teach
ers meet together and interchange
their views is obliged to result in
good. How many of the fifty or six
ty applicants at the last County ex.
animation are not only inexperienced,
but yool-g i'll years? Does the broth
cr think they need no help? No sane
man will say that persons ought
to be deprived of the privilege of 90
ing to church, and of having their
religious Impressions developed. Nor
can L see how any teacher can say,
that County Normals do no good;
when young teachers hear the expert
ence OF their seniors, and often learn
from short lecture what NAV have
rcquired the lecturer years to find
out. How many teachers believed
thirty or forty years ago, that there
was any more etIectual means of dis
clpllnc than through the back! Yet
to-day 90-100 of the successful teach
erS throughout our land, use the
switch only i'll extreme cases. There
is strategy in managing school, and
If properly exercised, is often not less
effective than strategy in an army in
the field. Are the children of to dav
to be whaled and thrashcd, until the
! teachers learn by experience that it is
wrong; and all because the men are
so jealous Of tie little pittance of the
public pay, that must be contributed
such meetings, IS will enable them to
sec thcir own folly.
If any teacher will attend the pro
spcct!Yo meeting Of the Inter County |
Norual this summer at Williamson,
and does not feel that he is benefited !
by the work done, he had better seek
some other employment. J. Yale
Professor has calculated the number
OF this character of men t'lat could !!
find standing room on tctyYl frU,a, if
each w"s as big as he thinks himself,
and thinks he proved that only two
lawyers, two doctors and one preacher
would be left, the rest would all be
showed into tho sea. This applies to
such persons as do not feel benefited
by attending Normal Schools, and
not to "Old Fashioned Teacher" for
l am satisfied that he has never yet
attended such meeting.
Now, come brother, be sure and at
tend the meeting at Williamson this
summer, and let us hear from you af-
tcrwards.
How many teachers in Pickens
County endorse "Old Fashioned
Teachev?" The "Teachcrs Column"
is open to hear from you.
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